Photography Workshop

Photographed (Left to Right): Chris, Julianna, Ian, Jakob, Jennifer, Adlemy, Tyler, Amie, Dulce, and Sarai.

During this workshop our mentees were introduced to the 3 different ways to control light…Aperture, ISO, and Shutter. After Jasmine, the co-founder and executive director, led this workshop, our mentees went outside to put all that they learned to the test. They worked in groups of two, discussing and sharing which settings worked best for their photos. Not only did this test their knowledge, it was also a team building exercise. We are so proud of our mentees for working together and being confident in what they learned.

Follow along @thefirehousedream on Instagram to see live behind the scenes of workshops our mentees participate in. We are so excited to share some more workshops our mentees go through as time goes on.

Welcoming Our Fall 2021 Mentees

Photographed (Left to Right): Chris, Ian, Julianna, Sarai, Dulce, Tyler, Amie, Jennifer, Adlemy, and Tyler.

We are so excited to welcome our Fall 2021 Mentees! This is our 3rd mentorship of the year and we cannot wait to see all the amazing things these mentees create! Follow along on Instagram @thefirehousedream to see Behind the Scenes and live IG stories.

Four Projects

We’re so excited to share the four projects that our Summer Mentees were able to accomplish during our 6 week mentorship program.

1. The Quinn Center

Our Summer Mentees were able to photograph children at The Quinn Centers annual summer camp this year, they put to use all of the skills they learned throughout the 6 week Mentorship.

2. Maywoodian Families

A group of five mentees photographed families who live in Maywood, as well as made a blog post about each individual family and their story of how they came to Maywood.

3. Video | Food Desert Conversation

Another group of five mentees created, shot, planned, and edited a podcast video talking about the challenges our community faces.

4. Individual Headshots

Our Summer Mentees teamed up to photograph headshots of each other. They utilized their skills that they learned throughout the 6 week mentorship cohort.

Part 1 | Part 2

PROVISO FOOD & RESOURCE COALITION

We are continuing to support our community with food, wellness check-in’s and more. Our food coalition officially has a name too, we are now called the Proviso Food & Resources Coalition. We are made up of 5 locally led organizations called: Best of Proviso Township, NextGen Church, Impact Church, God’s Heritage Church, and The Firehouse Dream. I love how we are a multi racial and multi-generational coalition, and it’s been nothing but a pure joy to collaborate and partner with these amazing organizations!

We also had many of other organizations partner with for our Food Distribution on June 6th. The way God has brought an abundance of food and community had been amazing!

Special thanks to: Maywood Police, Village of Maywood, Maywood Census, PP4H, Freedom Fighters, HOJO, The Greater Northern Food Depository, Forty Acres, UTURN Covenant church, UTURN Covenant Church, many individual donors and more!

Check out the photos from our food drive:

Photography Teacher...who me?

Since the beginning of Dec 2019, I’ve been teaching photography to a group of students at Proviso East. Our photo club averaged 3-7 students each time we met…which took place on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s. We made huge progress from learning how to see light, to my students learning how to change their settings in manual, and then how to import and edit their photos in Lightroom. We had big goals of showcasing student work in the hallways, as well as putting on an end of year gallery.

While all programming is on hold with COVID-19, I remain hopeful that when we can meetup again, that we will be able to move forward with pursuing those big goals!

So friends….here’s a few Iphone pics I took while at Proviso East over the past few months.